How Would You Do... Summoner?

[Jerbob]

Its always in all FF games treated as more of a BLM style really flashy Nuke... not as some pet who stays with you all the time and a power inherent to the Summoner... not as some pet[/B]

I'll be the first to admit that I've not played every - or even most - of the FF games. However, in the ones I have played, whenever a summoner does something related to summoning, something big appears to do all the hard lifting work. Sure, it's a graphical effect and not a "pet" in most cases, but then again a spell is just a melee attack with pretty lights in most FFs. Where do you draw the line?

My point is, Summoner as a direct damage job (or DoT job for that matter) is no more "accurate" with regards to historical FF than the pet model. I'm sure the FF history buffs among us can state an exception or two, but for the vast majority of actual summoning that takes place, something shows up in response. Summoner's trances are actually fairly inaccurate by that metric.

[Silverquick]

My point is, Summoner as a direct damage job (or DoT job for that matter) is no more "accurate" with regards to historical FF than the pet model. I'm sure the FF history buffs among us can state an exception or two, but for the vast majority of actual summoning that takes place, something shows up in response. Summoner's trances are actually fairly inaccurate by that metric.

Incorrect...

Its never a pet job... ever, with only a few exceptions... one is FFXI... which that model doesn't fit this game...

The rest it was always a large flashy nuke... a one large single target AoE hit that wipe out enemies...

Which is exactly what Deathflare currently does... what few if any of them ACTUALLY have... is a pet that sticks around.